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he drew parallels between Gateway and the Amiga and stated how much the Amiga was important to Gateway. Petro Tyschtschenko was adamant about the growth and the direction of the Amiga system. What seemed to bother most people was the absence of delivery dates on new Amigas or a new operating system. The truth is, Gateway doesn't know. Jim Taylor made the comment during the question and answer session after their speeches that Gateway had only had the Amiga for twenty minutes. When you consider that Gateway was busy with the paperwork and the procedures required to purchase the Amiga almost to the day of the conference, this was fairly accurate. One Gateway executive explained it this way. Imagine you are at a garage sale and you see an interesting box in the corner. You find a tool in it that you could use. You look at the price, decide the tool is worth it and the buy the box. Once your home, you begin looking through the box and you discover all these wonderful little items in it. Some need cleaning and a little tender loving care, others need repair, some just need to be used to limber their joints. When you getdone with your assessment, you have a whole lot more than you bargained for in the first place. Gateway has opened the box. They have created Amiga International to limber the joints, oil the cogs, and start repairing the parts. The important point is that they have something they believe is very valuable and they want to make it work. By tradition, Gateway 2000 makes no announcements until they are ready to ship and, when they are ready to ship, they ship. This is unusual for the Amiga community, but with the possibilities that Gateway 2000 has brought to the Amiga